Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Articles on Health Care

This article is full of ugly numbers regarding how thoroughly bought our Congress is. Try to ignore the snotty tone. (When you have numbers like this on your side, you should be talking like an adult.)

This article does a much better job of letting numbers make the argument, this time regarding how much the insurance companies are gaining on the stock market from killing the public option (or at least stabbing in the back a half-dozen times and leaving it to bleed to death).

Unfortunately, not all numbers are trustworthy, as indicated by this article about Gallup poll biases against health care reform.

Also bear in mind that those Congressmen ranting against "socialized medicine" all have a lovely gold-plated socialized medicine health plan of their very own, paid for by you and me, as explained here. If it was really so wicked, they wouldn't be doing it themselves. And since they love their socialized medicine plan so very very much, why shouldn't we -- the taxpayers, you know, the people footing the bill for all this? -- be able to vote ourselves into their plan? Not some hacked-up hairball of a "public plan" that nobody would want: THEIR PLAN, the lovely one with all the benefits that they all adore and wouldn't dream of giving up, ever, even after they leave office. I want their plan. I deserve their plan. After all, I'm paying for it: I should get the benefits from it. And so should you.
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raven_ap_morgan

raven_ap_morgan

August 5 2009, 08:52:16 UTC 11 years ago

Keith Olbermann recently did a Special Comment about the subject of how the healthcare industry is buying Congress off - see filkertom's journal for a link to the video.

Raven

Parity for Congress

Anonymous

August 5 2009, 13:55:28 UTC 11 years ago

I think that we should all have access to the Congressional health plan and I believe that Congress should be subject to its minimum wage laws (pegging their income to minimum wage). Seems to me that this would not only provide a dramatic perspective change for the members, but would likely open up the field to who could/would be a Congress person.

Erik
http://search4beauty.blogspot.com